2001.05.21 Meeting Notes

News

Eazel shuts down. Nautilus is Open Source, so it's development should
continue.

The movie "Shrek" was rendered with Linux systems. DreamWorks is
switching from SGI to Linux!

Nokia announces the "Media Terminal," a Linux-based set-top device that
can play games. Loki will be releasing titles for it.

A court ordered an IBM representative 30 hours of community service for
spraypainting IBM's "Peace, Love and Linux" logos in Chicago.

2600 sued for putting up a site called "fordsucks.com". Ford has been
suing numerous sites that supposedly infringe on their brand names
(including some wildlife-related sites with the word "jaguar" in them!!)

Katje Sabin of the Davis Enterprise commended our public relations!

Project Reports

Demo - The next Demo will be May 26th at the Davis Food Co-Op.

Installfests - The last Installfest was yesterday. We had 8
installees. We are looking to secure a location for IFs during the
summer - Richard Lowenberg of DCN and Kevin Murikoshi of the CS Club
might be able to help. We may also consider contacting Explorit.

LERT - Nothing to report.

Library - We purchased two new books, including the excellent
Advanced Perl Programming.

Linux Primer - Pete Salzman and Henry House (among others) are
creating a document for new Linux users, which LUGOD can pass out at
meetings and events.

Other Business

Elections - No nominations were made, so no voting is necessary.
Bill Kendrick remains root (President), Pete Salzman
remains sys (Vice President), Jen Rutherford remains
typescript (Secretary) and Rhonda Bailey remains /dev/null
(Treasurer). We are considering voting only once a year or switching
to "vote of non-confidence" to reduce voting-related overhead.

Financial Report - $44.40 in voluntary dues were
collected.

Raffle - We gave away some prizes. Most notable was Mark Kim
winning a second Ximian-Gnome plush monkey.

Presentation

Brian Lavender of Worldcom in Sacramento talked about the Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and demonstrated it using roaming
Netscape bookmarks and preferences.

Pete Salzman showed the Linux game "Jagged Alliance 2", a roleplaying
strategy game created by Tribsoft.